The Sterling was a strong assault weapon with its 9mma and extended mag – though the Australian version has the best cyclic rate. Those that dismiss the system because of its Ten parentage should think again. Worked well in the Falklands!

No, you didn’t, but the guy I was replying to did. His point was that unnamed people criticise the Sterling based on its STEN ‘parentage’. Mine was that IN THAT CONTEXT, the two have nothing to do with each other. Which is quite true.

For reasons best known to yourself, you’ve chosen to get into the semantics of the words I chose. Of course one has SOMETHING to do with the other – both are 9mm, both a British, both C20th, both SMGs, etc etc.

If you can’t see why I used the word ‘nothing’ in the context of the discussion, I don’t know what to tell you.